Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Ain Bessem in Algeria

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Ain Bessem in Algeria. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us20006014. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20006014. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 3.5907° East, 36.3224° North. The temblor was picked up at 01:00:02 / 1:00 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/05/16 / 2016-05-29 00:00:02 / May 29, 2016 @ 12:00 am.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Algeria (c. 34 586 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 68 km (43 miles) from Algiers (c. 1 977 700 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Boumerdas (c. 786 500 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Bab Ezzouar (c. 275 600 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Blida (c. 182 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Médéa (c. 147 700 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Tizi Ouzou (c. 144 000 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Bordj el Kiffan (c. 123 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ksar el Boukhari, Bou Ismaïl, El Affroun (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 8 km WNW of Ain Bessem, Algeria.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	3.5907° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.3224° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8km WNW of Ain Bessem, Algeria	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-05-29 00:00:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-06-17 03:59:35	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	60	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	reviewed	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	312	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	3.888	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.46 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	116	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us20006014	Id of event.
Event Code	20006014	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20006014,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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